Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-11-23
GENERAL NEWS.

The average wages paid to New York
sewing women is so cents for fifteen
hours work.
Duluth offered two million dollars for
the state capital, and will give in like
proportion toward smaller jobbing
houses.-Duluth Paraerapher.
jeff Davis has recently published a
lengthy and interesting paper on forest
ry, He conservatively omitted any men,
tion of the famous sour apple tree.
1t is reported that the original warrant
under which John Bunyan was arrested
and thrown into prison has recently been
discovered. It bears da te March 4, 1874.
st. Reter had fire last week that des-
troyed about thirty buildings in the busl-
ness heart of the city. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000, partly covered by in
surance.
Chief Justice Waite reads nothing but
law books, works twelve hours day, and
is the only member of the Supreme Court
who does not indulge in a $1,000 private
secretary.
The second trial of John Arensdorf for
the murder of Rev. Haddock is going on
at Sioux City. w. W. Erwin, the noted
criminal lawyer of St. Paul, Is one of the
counsel for the defense.
The public schools in Springfield, Ill.,,
had to be closed several days recently, on
account of the scarcity of coal, caused by
a miners strike, which threatens to pre-
vail generally throughout the State of
Illinois.
Not less than twenty-five deaths have
occurred among those who were passen-
gers on board the "Alcsia," which came
into New York Harbor few weeks ago,
with the cholera raging among it's steer
age passengers.
The county commissioners of Faribault
county have appointed Mrs. Ida Geddes
county superintendent to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of her husband, J.
G. Geddes. Mrs. Giddes is said to be
we'll qualified for the position.
Land Commissioner Sparks has tender
ed his resignation to the president and it
will probably be accepted, The reason
for This resignation is said to be
that he could not get along with the
1f lr%a
many in the west who will see Sparks go
without sigh of sorrow.
Milwaukee Journal: A railroad sec.
tion hand will smoke pipe filled. with
home spun tobacco. and emitting an odor
that bllghts vegetation and corrodes
steel, for sixteen hours day, and never
gets his throat in such condition that
he cannot say, II can, sir, !" if asked if he
can drink glass of beer. But if a crown
prince, general, or United States SEN
ator INDUCES IN few Havana cigars dai-
ly, he is likely to get frog in his neck
that will eventually tear his vltals out.
Smokers cancer is evidently an aristo-
cratic disease.
Johann Most, the arch-anarchist, has
been again arrested. The charge is an in
cendiary speech made by Most on hearing
Of the hanging of his Chicago brethren.
The severest sentence that can be given
him is one year in jail. 1t would be a
great mercy to humanity if this rabid
leader could be laid away for prolonged
rest. There is no danger of making it
too long for his good as he has gone too
far to ever turn to anything useful to
himself or anyone else. While at large
his writings and utterances excite to vio-
lence men, who, if left to themselves,
would carry themselves with order and
decencY.
Advance: 1t is an awful thing to doom
a murderer, even one, to death upon the
gallows. It is not strange, it is not
wrong, that civilized society shrinks IN
horror from any close thought Of it. Still
more awful does it seem to all of us to
have six or seven men doomed to such
taking off. Nevertheless, the due execu.
ton of few such men rightly condemn
ed to death is not to be compared in
dyeadfulness to the murder by dynamite
of companies of policemen, the very i'm
personation of the law and order and
safety of society. Pity is good; mercy Is
divine; but justice must not be sacrificed
to one-sided and short sighted maudlin
sentimentalitv.